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* Tik-Tok, the clockwork soldier from the [[Land of Oz (Literature)|Oz book]] ''Ozma of Oz''.
* Tik-Tok, the clockwork soldier from the [[Land of Oz (Literature)|Oz book]] ''Ozma of Oz''.
* S. M. Stirling's ''[[Emberverse]]'', especially in the third trilogy where he comes up with bicycle powered ''trains''.
* S. M. Stirling's ''[[Emberverse]]'', especially in the third trilogy where he comes up with bicycle powered ''trains''.
* The ''Medici Trilogy'' by Martin Woodhouse and Robert Ross portrays [[Leonardo Da Vinci]] using several interesting techniques and devices, apparently later lost to history. In the first book, he invents small, readily transportable cannon and the ballistic math to fire them accurately at targets he can't even see. Instead of trying to smash down walls, Leonardo and the cannoneers he turns into a strike team blast open doors -- or wipe out troops with grapeshot. He's also shown to have developed a mini-telescope. In the third book, he develops a clockwork mini-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter ornithopter] as a toy, and later builds hang gliders to slip his team into an enemy-held city.
* The ''Medici Trilogy'' by Martin Woodhouse and Robert Ross portrays [[Leonardo Da Vinci]] using several interesting techniques and devices, apparently later lost to history. In the first book, he invents small, readily transportable cannon and the ballistic math to fire them accurately at targets he can't even see. Instead of trying to smash down walls, Leonardo and the cannoneers he turns into a strike team blast open doors -- or wipe out troops with grapeshot. He's also shown to have developed a mini-telescope. In the third book, he develops a clockwork mini-[[wikipedia:Ornithopter|ornithopter]] as a toy, and later builds hang gliders to slip his team into an enemy-held city.
* Adrian Tchaikovsky's ''Shadows of the Apt'' series mostly runs on [[Steampunk]] but there are also some clockwork devices like crank driven ornithopters and automobiles. This is particularly so in the Wasp Empire, which is slightly behind the Lowlands that it is invading technologically.
* Adrian Tchaikovsky's ''Shadows of the Apt'' series mostly runs on [[Steampunk]] but there are also some clockwork devices like crank driven ornithopters and automobiles. This is particularly so in the Wasp Empire, which is slightly behind the Lowlands that it is invading technologically.
* [[Robert Rankin]]'s ''The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse'' and its sequel ''The Toyminator'' take place in a clock punk/fantasy hyrbid world. Lead character Jack can't bring himself to believe he's stumbled on a city populated by [[Living Toys]] and real-life [[Nursery Rhyme]] characters, but clockwork automobiles that never need fuel or, it seems, winding are apparently perfectly normal.
* [[Robert Rankin]]'s ''The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse'' and its sequel ''The Toyminator'' take place in a clock punk/fantasy hyrbid world. Lead character Jack can't bring himself to believe he's stumbled on a city populated by [[Living Toys]] and real-life [[Nursery Rhyme]] characters, but clockwork automobiles that never need fuel or, it seems, winding are apparently perfectly normal.
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== Live-Action TV ==
== Live-Action TV ==
* The clockwork maintenance droids in the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S2 E4 The Girl in The Fireplace|The Girl In The Fireplace]]". Unlike most these are from the 51st century appearing to be meant to repair a spaceship without the need for conventional power sources.
* The clockwork maintenance droids in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S2 E4 The Girl in The Fireplace|The Girl In The Fireplace]]". Unlike most these are from the 51st century appearing to be meant to repair a spaceship without the need for conventional power sources.
** More generally, the Time Lords are replete with clock motifs, from the gear-shaped hats to their writing system, which is full of circles and looks like some sort of seasonal chart.
** More generally, the Time Lords are replete with clock motifs, from the gear-shaped hats to their writing system, which is full of circles and looks like some sort of seasonal chart.
* The ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]'' episode "Concerning Flight" features a hologram of [[Leonardo Da Vinci]] equipped with the space-age technology to realize his designs. A few other Voyager episodes feature his creations as well.
* The ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]'' episode "Concerning Flight" features a hologram of [[Leonardo Da Vinci]] equipped with the space-age technology to realize his designs. A few other Voyager episodes feature his creations as well.
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** The majority of them seem like they would work. The problem is that they're inefficient and in Leonardo's day a lot of them would have been extremely difficult and expensive to construct.
** The majority of them seem like they would work. The problem is that they're inefficient and in Leonardo's day a lot of them would have been extremely difficult and expensive to construct.
*** If not downright impossible: most of them relied on human or animal muscle power.
*** If not downright impossible: most of them relied on human or animal muscle power.
* The ancient Greeks had some pretty advanced clockwork-style devices that we know next to nothing about, because the only surviving sample is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism Antikythera mechanism], and the written record about their machines is very thin. But studies of the Antikythera mechanism put its complexity and craft as comparable to 18th century Europe.
* The ancient Greeks had some pretty advanced clockwork-style devices that we know next to nothing about, because the only surviving sample is the [[wikipedia:Antikythera mechanism|Antikythera mechanism]], and the written record about their machines is very thin. But studies of the Antikythera mechanism put its complexity and craft as comparable to 18th century Europe.
* Al-Jazari, a medieval Middle-Eastern scientist, had many inventions, including a musical band made of Automatons, centuries before Leonardo.
* Al-Jazari, a medieval Middle-Eastern scientist, had many inventions, including a musical band made of Automatons, centuries before Leonardo.
* Japanese ''karakuri'' dolls and their 18th century European counterparts: Gear driven robots that could do things such as play music, serve food or write. Pretty much the direct ancestors of those creepy fembots they always show in Japanese tech exhibitions nowadays.
* Japanese ''karakuri'' dolls and their 18th century European counterparts: Gear driven robots that could do things such as play music, serve food or write. Pretty much the direct ancestors of those creepy fembots they always show in Japanese tech exhibitions nowadays.
* In Europe in the period directly before the Industrial Revolution kicked off, clockwork technology had become very advanced, to the point where some truly elaborate setups were constructed in the richer royal courts. One example was an entire clockwork garden where as you walked through it, pressure on the floor plates would cause various clockwork animals to react as if alive. Several natural philosophers of the time wrote of these clockwork displays as their inspiration for later machinery.
* In Europe in the period directly before the Industrial Revolution kicked off, clockwork technology had become very advanced, to the point where some truly elaborate setups were constructed in the richer royal courts. One example was an entire clockwork garden where as you walked through it, pressure on the floor plates would cause various clockwork animals to react as if alive. Several natural philosophers of the time wrote of these clockwork displays as their inspiration for later machinery.
* The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine difference engine].
* The [[wikipedia:Difference engine|difference engine]].
** Its successor, the analytical engine, had it ever been built, would have been the first ever general-purpose, programmable, Turing-complete, digital computing machine. How awesome is that?
** Its successor, the analytical engine, had it ever been built, would have been the first ever general-purpose, programmable, Turing-complete, digital computing machine. How awesome is that?
*** Awesome enough that someone's trying to finish the design and [http://plan28.org/ build it.]
*** Awesome enough that someone's trying to finish the design and [http://plan28.org/ build it.]
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== Video Games ==
== Video Games ==
* The ''[[Syberia (Video Game)|Syberia]]'' [[Adventure Game]] duology ''revels'' in all kinds of clockwork mechanisms: from a [[Cool Train]] that has to be rewound at each station, to [[Ridiculously Human Robots|quasi-sentient clockwork automatons]].
* The ''[[Syberia (Video Game)|Syberia]]'' [[Adventure Game]] duology ''revels'' in all kinds of clockwork mechanisms: from a [[Cool Train]] that has to be rewound at each station, to [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|quasi-sentient clockwork automatons]].
** And you better call them "automata", never "[[Insistent Terminology|robots]]".
** And you better call them "automata", never "[[Insistent Terminology|robots]]".
* ''[[Deadly Rooms of Death]]'' has no form of power generation and no large beasts of burden, so the weights that power the clockworks of various machinery have to be rewound by human work.
* ''[[Deadly Rooms of Death]]'' has no form of power generation and no large beasts of burden, so the weights that power the clockworks of various machinery have to be rewound by human work.
* The devices summoned by [[Squishy Wizard]] Amadeus in ''[[Trine (Video Game)|Trine]]'' all have a gear motif to them.
* The devices summoned by [[Squishy Wizard]] Amadeus in ''[[Trine (Video Game)|Trine]]'' all have a gear motif to them.
* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' lets you build pumps, traps, [[Pointless Doomsday Device|doomsday devices]] and even ''computers'' (painfully slow but [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness Turing complete]) with stone gears, wooden axles, metal pumps, and water/magma, powered by water wheels or windmills.
* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' lets you build pumps, traps, [[Pointless Doomsday Device|doomsday devices]] and even ''computers'' (painfully slow but [[wikipedia:Turing completeness|Turing complete]]) with stone gears, wooden axles, metal pumps, and water/magma, powered by water wheels or windmills.
* The clock tower in ''[[Prince of Persia]]: Warrior Within''.
* The clock tower in ''[[Prince of Persia]]: Warrior Within''.
* ''[[Rise of Nations]]: [[Rise of Legends]]'' has the Vinci faction.
* ''[[Rise of Nations]]: [[Rise of Legends]]'' has the Vinci faction.
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